The following is from the _Nation_ (Jan. 19, 1918):

A clergyman sends me the following. I think it best to publish
the story as it stands:--

"Some years before the outbreak of war there lived in a certain
German town, now frequently raided by air squadrons, an old
Englishwoman. She was a semi-invalid; difficult and
cantankerous. Subject to illusions, she imagined that the good
nuns, who received her as an unremunerative paying guest, were
in league against her mangy, but beloved dog. Yet both she and
her dog continued to receive the half-humorous tolerance of
their benefactors.

"Then came the 4th of August, 1914, and Miss X. passed into the
mists of war.

"A year later she emerged from the mists.

"A letter came, forwarded through a neutral in Switzerland; but
the letter was not from the pen of Miss X. It had been dictated.
Briefly, it said: 'I am bed-ridden and almost blind. I have
hardly anything to live upon; and the Germans will not let me
go.'

"Certain details were added which clearly established identity
to the recipient of the letter. There followed, on the same
sheet of paper, and in the same handwriting, a postscript: 'Sir,
I have taken this poor Englishwoman into my house. How can she
live on 10 marks a month?

Yours, Fraeulein ...'

"Intervened the British Foreign Office and the American
Embassy. Then came another letter: 'Sir, your efforts have not
been in vain....

Fraeulein ...'

"But that is not the end of this incident of war. 'Hate.' had
still its 'uses.'

"'Sir. I thank you for your good letter and your very kind
question. All is paid, hospital and funeral. There were 30 marks
left to have the grave a little arranged.

Fraeulein ...'"

My correspondent adds the following comment: "I was an enemy,
and ye took me in."

In Vienna newspapers there were in 1915 many advertisements in which
French, English, and Russian natives offer their services as teachers,
thus:

London Lady (Diploma) gives lessons.--L. Balman, VI Bez.
Gumpendorferstrasse 5, Th. 14.

Frenchman and Frenchwoman give instruction in French.--VIII,
Lerchengasse 10.

An Irishwoman, brought up in England, gives lessons.--Letters to